Samsung's next-gen RAM will make your phone way faster, but the Galaxy Note 10 won't get it
(PCWorld)

Samsung on Thursday announced a major breakthrough in the future of smartphones: mass production has begun on the industry´s first 12GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM chip, so it should start showing up in smartphones pretty soon. But don`t get your hopes up about it showing up on the Galaxy Note 10`s spec sheet next month.As Samsung explains in its press release, the 10nm LPDDR5 chip (Lower Power Double Data Rate) has been `optimized for enabling 5G and AI features in future smartphones.` That mainly boils down to speed. The new chips have a data rate of 5,500MB/s, about 1.3 times faster than the 4,266MB/s LPDDR4X DRAM used in the Galaxy S10 5G and the 20nm LPDDR4 in the Galaxy S10+. That`s not quite as big of a leap as the 2x increase from LPDDR3 to LPDDR4 (2,133MB/s to 4,266MB/s) but it`s still significant.To read this article in full, please click here